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My name is Jonathan and I would like to request a custom scroll. I would like the scroll to say:

Shin Ku Myo U

I read this phrase in the book "zen mind, beginner's mind" by D.T. Suzuki. According to Suzuki, the phrase means:

from true emptiness, the wondrous being appears

I don't know if this phrase is in the Chinese or Japanese language.

Can you please tell me if it is possible to get a custom scroll made with this phrase in the appropriate Chinese/Japanese kanji and if so, what size & style of scrolls do you offer and how much will it cost?

I don't know if this helps to find the correct kanji, but I found the passage in the book that speaks directly about the phrase:

This naturalness is very difficult to explain. But if you canjust sit and experience the actuality of nothingness in yourpractice, there is no need to explain. If it comes out of nothingness,whatever you do is natural, and that is true activity.You have the true joy of practice, the true joy of life in it.Everyone comes out from nothingness moment after moment.Moment after moment we have true joy of life. So wesay shin ku myo u, "from true emptiness, the wondrous beingappears." Shin is "true"; ku is "emptiness"; myo is "wondrous";u is "being" : from true emptiness, wondrous being.